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Twain’a DeacripHon ot
Miaaouri River W ater
Published r « 7 Thursday at Her-
tatoton, U m atilla County, Orogoa by
Raymond Crowder, Editor and Man*
In one of his retnm trips to tho
state of bis boyhood, Mark Twain
wrote a friend he had found one thing
that had not changed—the mulatto
complexion of Missouri river water—
and probably a score of centuries
would not change It. “It comes out
of the turbulent, bank-caving river,“
he explained, “and every thimbleful of
It holds an acre of land in solution.
I got this fact from the bishop of the
diocese. If you will let your glass
stand half an hour you can separate
the land from the water as easy as
Genesis, and then you will And them
both good— the one to eat, the other
to drink. The land la very nourishing,
the water Is thoroughly wholesome.
The one appeases hunger, the other,
thirst. But the natives do not take
them separately, but together, as na
ture mixed them. When they find an
Inch of mud In the bottom of the
glass, they stir it up and take a draft
as they would gruel, it ts difficult for
the stranger to get used to thia batter,
but once used he will prefer it to wa
ter."—Pathfinder Magazine.
Entered u aeeond class matter,
December 1901 at the poetofflce at
Hermiston, Oregon.
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Ebony Mentioned in Bible
The deep black heart wood, which
Is most highly prised In a number of
trees of the ebony fumily, Is mentioned
In the Bible In Ezekiel 27:15. In con
nection with Ivory, probably on ac
count of their value and of their con
trasting colors. Ebony was once sup
posed to grow In the ground “without
root or leaves” und to It were as
cribed many miraculous powers. The
chief source of the ebony wood Is the
Island of Ceylon, where huge logs of
the pure henrtwood are cut and
hauled to th> coast.
For Interior
decorations ‘ n id furniture ebony has
been super«»- d by rosewood and ma
hogany, hut for cabinet work It Is still
widely employed, being exported from
Madagascar,
Jamaica,
India
and
Egypt. A sppcles of the ebony tree
which is used as a veneer also grows
In the «nt. there United States.—Wash-
lngton Star.
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A f o J e r n Noah’» Ark
Barre Colorado Island was formed
when the ' tlleys about It were flooded
by he Imnotiiidlng of the waters of thp
Cbugro« i Ivar to form Gatun lake, says
the fh'U'Ml New i. It resemblea Noah's
ark In that there gathered ns the
waters rose nearly every form of an-
mal life In the vicinity, seeking es-
frorn the rising flood,
life that It la only two miles
«o Pm oina river, It has been
, harbor amphibians of new
Ige bn hits as yet unstudied
_ _ _ _ _ _ ineruble species of Insects
■ ------------- rlhed. as well ns ninny
d exotic plants, numbering
hire, ft abonnda with ant-
. . . »loth«, armadillos, peccaries,
tapir, agoutis, coatls, the ocelot, the
Jaguar, many species of hat, monkeys
of variona kinds and the fumous black
howlers.
t
Loaded Sheila Spelled
Doom of Shot Towers
Opal Dig g e n Work Hard
for Small Remuneration
Of all the rough "outback" Jobs lu
Australia, digging for opal Is about
the worst Coober Pedy lies In the
heart of the Stewart range, 170 mile«
from the nearest station on the East-
West railway, and Its whole populs-
tlon of between 70 and 80 diggers
lives underground In burrows scratch«!
out of the hillside. A tin shanty. In
which the diggers keep their tools. Is
the only sign of life showing above
1 ground.
Every morning the diggers come out
! of their holes and set out for the opal
fields, to cut patiently through the
roek In the hope of finding the beau
tiful blnck diamonds lying beneath.
Between them they have dug many
thousands of dollars’ worth of opal In
the last four years, though they have
j ,vorged only a small area of a field
said to be 40 miles long. In normal
times opal Is worth about »15 an
ounce, hut now that there Is practical
ly no demand for the gems the diggers
have opal, but no money.
Almost Evened the Serie»
Hrs. Smith wanted to go to the mo
vies. Mr. Smith said he had put In a
hard day at the office and waa tired
and would rather alt at home and
smoke. Knowing the Smiths, anyone
could have predicted that they would
go to the movies I
“Let’s sit down near the front,” said
Mrs. Smith.
"ltul I don't like to alt near the
front," Mr. Smith protested. “When
I do that the pictures hurt my eyes.”
“Nonsense I” scoffed Mrs. Smith. “I
like to he down close so I can watch
the musicians.”
Soon the two were seated within
comfortable seeing distance of tbs or
chestra.
“(>h, don’t yon Just lore to bear the
rumble of the kettledrums?” Mrs,
Smith gushed.
And then the worm turned, albeit
ever so slightly.
“Yes," Mr. Smith replied. “Keep
qjnlet ¡"—‘Kansas City Star.
Until the loaded shotgun shell was
developed »hot was »old to the Jobbing
trade throughout the entire country
packed in bags, which In turn were
purchased by the man having a muz
zle-loading shotgun, who was obliged
to reload Ills gun with powder and shot
wlieneier the gun wes fired at game or
target, says the Iietrolt News. The
loaded shot «holt nnd the breech-load
ing shotgun sounded the death knell
of the old type o f »hot towptr. '
*
The business of the ammunition con
cerns manufacturing shot shells grew
Unharmed by Long Falla
by leaps and bounds ao that the shot
Among the classic English falls
ronsumptlon of th" country centered
at the points where these shot shell» may be mentioned that of a steeple-
hick, who fell from the top of the
were manufactured, notably In New
England, nnd In the course of event» church of St. George In Bolton-Ie-
these ammunition concerns began to Meors to the ground, the whole dis
manufacture their own shot, thus com tance traversed being some 120 feet.
pletely destroying the business of the The man's skull struck soma sheet
many shot towers located throughout lead upon the earth and left Its Im
pact upon It, but though this fa]l was
the country.
quite unbroken the man waa only
t1
slightly Injured and resumed work in
P ic fu ra zQ u e W /u 'ffcy Abbey
a few days. Not long ago a man
Other of the ruined churches of with his shoes on fall from the top
England have a more picturesque of a cliff at Dover, the height of which
magnificence, but none a more ancient was afterward found to be 400 feet.
fame than Whitby ahhey, Henri Pick He wns picked np floating Insensible
ard writes In the Cincinnati Enquirer. In some five feet of water, but his
There the (list rude poetry of Eng shoes were off, which proves that he
land waa written more than twelve must have retained sufficient con
centuries ngo.
There, earlier still, sciousness on reaching the water to
was held the synod which decided that enable him to draw hla shoes from
the British church should keep Easter his feet
at the «ante time its the rest of Chris
tendom, a choice which meant that
New Palindrome Found
Christendom should he united, and
New pallndrnmea are rare, but a
Britain remain within the Influence of
the civilization of Italy end Gaul, lint western newspaper writer has re
the modern traveler who ellmhs the vealed several especially good ones. A
many steps which lend from the river pnMndrome Is merely a phrase that
A
to what wns "high Whitby's cloistered spells backward and forward.
pile" has seen nothing of the Ab classic example of the palindrome ts
bey of St. Hilda. In the ruin« on the the speech put Into the mouth of Na
hill there xvns no fragment older than poleon : “Able was I ere I saw Elba.“
Plantagem-t times. But discoveries of Among the new ones sent wns the fol
lowing purporting to be a sign which
great Interest have noxv been made.
a »tore manager placed over a rat-
catching preparation composed of
Dutch cheese and tar: "Rat trap
made 4 la Edam, part tar.” Tears ngo
when "red root" was popular as a
cure-all, a druggist'« sign ran: "Red
root put up to order."
TELL'EM
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needs is
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lix s '!
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asAhc. m ort
HAKE YOUR WANTS KNOWN—
—1ST THE HERALD WANT AbS—
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Plea fa r Stetuea of
DEBOUTE ORPHAN
el
CHILO PRODIGY The cltlxons ef one
Auch, ths
A2ADO UHI
PACHALIAN
“Do all the little girls In Armenia
dreas like you Zadif" “Oh, my! no
you ought to see how many clothes w(
don't have." This conversation In a
Portland office la typical of the quick
;
wit and ready response of Azadouhl
j
' Pachalian, who was brought to Amer
lea by her foster mother, Mrs. Pearl
,
R. Gannaway, formerly of Medford and
!
I Seattle.
“L ittle Azadouhl is no more lovable
nor brighter than the majority of the
, 8,500 children over whom Dr. Oanna
way has medical oversight In Beirut
| Syria,” states Mrs. Gannaway. "II
was her utter helplessness during the
six months we fought so hard for het
life that endeared her to us so that
we felt we could not give her up and
I brought her to America to adopt
her.”
In Judge Tallm an’s court In
Seattle the adoption was carried out
while she, four and a half years old
selemnly raised her hand and declar
ed, “I adopt you as my mamma.”
Azadouhl was the first and onlj
child of a young couple of education
and refinement and waa born shortly
after the armistice was signed and
because it was thought that freedom
had come she was named Azadouhl
(daughter of freedom). But the dost
of the war did not bring peace tc
the Near East and during the list
three years more than a million peo
pie have been rendered homeless
Many of these who are now homeless
refugees were three years ago living
In modern, steam heated homes and
were sending their children to for
eign countries for an education. Aza
douhi and her parents were among
those exiled. The father was driver
Into the Turkish army where he wat
killed. Azadouhl and her mother wan
dered In the woods from the time she
was nine months old until she was a
year old when both mother and child
were suffering from measles, pneu
monla and dysentery.
They found refuge In a Near East
hospital only to be discovered by the
Turks, who two days later drove th,
mother out to die. Why they left
the bahy no one knows. Then began
the longest and hardest fight of Dr
Gannaway’a long medical career. The
result speaks for Itself In this happy,
bonny girl, who in a test made at
Cheney Normal School, showed a men
tallty of eight years at the age ol
four and a half.
"There are thousands of children
with alt of Azadouhl's capabilities
1 homeless In Greek nnd Syrian refugee
cam»s today. They are beyond the
reach of the Near East Relief slmplx
because present funds are exhausted
when we have cared for the fifty
thousand children already In our care
Recently a bereaved mother gave m<
»80 to guarantee the care for a yeai
of a child such as Azadouhl. Her lov<
now flows out to a child somewhere
In the Near East,” Btates J. J. Hand
taker. Regional Director of Near Easi
Relief.
Ths Near East Relief offices are at
339 Burke Bldg.. Seattle and 613 Stock
Exchange, Portland.
joarojv,
When you have a
anclaot
capital of Oascooy, have decided to
erect a statue to D'Artagnan. hero of
Alexandre Dumas' “The Three Mus
keteers” and “Twenty Years After.”
In reality, of course. It la much more
than a statue to D'Artagnan, who
never existed, for the world until Du-
mua called him Into being. It Is more
than a statue to ('hurles de Basts Css
demore, the original of Dumas' hero
who was bom not far from Aucb. Il
is really a statue to Dumas and the
human Imagination.
Everything that has made D’Artag-
nun memorable and International came
front a great maker of romances—
D'Artagnan is one of the many crea
tions of poets and writer« that have
become more real than reol men.
It Is always a fine thing to see rec
«
ognition of such, the New York Sun a
comment«. There might even be more ia
statues to great characters of liters a
lure und fewer statues to little char a
acters of “real” life. While there Is !
no harm In remembering a man who
leaves a fountain or a park to a vil
lage, the men who have left Odysseus.
Hamlet, Nalstaff, Faust, Jean Valjean
and Natty Bnmppo are, after all, the
more deserving.
Coal Consumers
it to the home prin
Take Notice
ter. The salesman
from
W e h a v e tak en t h e
ex clu siv e agen cy for
th e F a m o u s U t a h
A b erd een C oal.
give you an
oily
line of “bunk” but
the home printer is
O R D E R S SOLICITED
L et us kn ow
your n eed s
Inland Empire Lumber Company
a
Bureau
work. The dollar
you spend here
will some day re
turn to you. The
dollar you send
away is gone for
ever. Our prices
are standard. If it
is to be printed we
can do it.
figure
Let us
with
you.
HERM ISTON
H ER A LD
L e g a l B lanks F o r S ale a t T h e H e ra ld O ffic e
Notice Is hereby given that the
undersigned has been appointed ad
ministrator of the estate cf Edgar A.
3m ilh, deceased, and has qualified ae
he law directs. All persons having
lalms against the said estate are
required to present the same to me
at the office of W. J. W arner, my
■ttorney, at his office In Hermiston,
Dregon, w ith proper vouchers, w ith
in six months from the date hereof
Dated th is 17th day of December,
1924.
ROBERT 0. HO RNING,
15-5tc
Administrator.
out-of-
entitled to your job
A western minister tells a story, ac
cording to the Kansas City Star, show 8
Ing how a bishop, accosted In a Chi ■
cago street by a neat but hungry ■
stranger, derived profit from the en- | ■
i!
counter.
I
Now the bishop took a fancy to the
needy one, took him to a hotel and
shared a good dinner with him. Yet.
having left Ms episcopal wallet In the I«
pocket of a different episcopal Jacket, I ■
a
he suddenly faced the embarrassment a
of not having the wherewithal to pay a
for the dinner.
a
331
“Never mind,” exclaimed the guest. ■
a
“I have enjoyed dining with you. and
“ The Yard of Beat
I »hall be charmed to pay the price. a
Allow me."
M. M. STRAW , nKaaC«
And the stranger paid for the two.
This worried the prelate, who Insisted :
Exclusive Representatives of Natfoul Builders
“Just let me cnll a taxi and we’ll a
a
run tip to my place, where I shall have
VOTE 306 YES— And save the Dairy Industry.
the pleasure of reimbursing you." Bui a
tne stranger met the suggestion with: ■ ■ I
"See here, old man I You’ve stuck
tne for a bully good dinner, but hanged
If I am going to let you stick me for
taxi fare!”
In the M atter of the Estate
of
Edgar A. Smith, Deceased.
an
town concern may
Refused to - F a ir for
Bishop’s Second Scheme
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
f.N THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR UMA
TILLA C0UNTR
job in our line give
having been attached on th at day
In the action above referred to ),
at pubic auction to the highest bid
der for cash, the proceeds of sale to
be applied as the law directs.
Dated this 8th day of December,
1924.
I
ZOETH HOUSER.
Sheriff.
By W . R. Anderson,
14-5tc
Deputy Sheriff.
SHERIFFS SALE
Notice Is hereby given that under
and by virtue of a w rit of execu
tion Issued out of the Circuit Court
of the State of Oregon in and for
the County of Um atilla, under the
seal thereof, and to me directed and
delivered upon a judgment and de
cree rendered and entered In said
court on the 17 th day of November,
1924, in favor of Frank Woughter,
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
as p la in tiff, and against S. E. W a l
Department of the Interior, U. S. ker and M ary J. W alker his wife,
Land Office at La Grande, Ore and Charles Spencer and Gertrude
gon, Nov. 20, 1924.
Spencer his wife, as defendahts,
Notice la hereby given that W il whereby the p la in tiff did recover a
liam J. Landon, of Hermiston, who, personal decree against the defend
on January 4, 1921. made Home- ants S. E. W alker and M ary J. W a l
tend E n try, Act 12-29-16, No ker his wife, for the sum of »100.00
NEW INTERNA TIO NAL
02020S, for all of Section 12. Town w ith interest thereon a t the rate of
APPEAL POR REFUGEES
xhlp 3 North, Range 27 East, W il 7 per cent per annum from the 11th
Geneva. Switzerland.— A joint np lamctte Meridian, has filed notice day of March, 1922, and the further
peal from twenty nations has beet i f Intention to make three-year sum of »500.00 w ith Interest there
placed before the League of Nations Proof, to establish claim to the land on at the rate of 7 per cent per an
asking for the appointment of a com above described, before United Stater
num from December 8th. 1920, and
mission to assist the American Nea Commissioner at Hermiston, Oregon
the further sum of »100.00 attorney’s
East Relief In Its work for refugee.
In Greece and nible Lands. The ap on the 29th day of December, 1924 fees, and the coats and disbursements
Claimant name« as witnesses D. H taxed at ,53 .9 5 and whereby It was
peal says: “In view of the Interna
tlonal character of the question lnvolv Shaw, W ilb ert P. Smith. C. H. Shaw, decreed that the mortgage dated on
ed and the necessity for an Impartial lohn D. Fisher, all of Hermiston the 11th day of March. 1931, exec
accurate and authoritative statemen Oregon.
uted by S. E. W alker and Mary J.
of the situation, we request the Leagu,
CARL G. H E L M . Register.
W alker his wife to E. P. Dodd and
of Nations to appoint a commisslot
by him assigned to p la in tiff, upon
which ahall make a prompt, thorougl
Inquiry Into the distressing condition» NOTICE OF SH E R IF FS SALE OF the following described real property
ATTACHED PROPERTY ON
In the Near East and indicate wha
In' U m atilla County. Oregon, to-w lt:
step« should be taken to améliorât'
EXECUTION
S E U of N W t f of N E U Section 5.
these conditions in accord with hu
Notice Is hereby given that by v ir Twp. 4 N. R. 29 E. W . M., which
manltarlan views of our twenllett
tue
of a w rit of execution Issued mortgage was recorded on March 11,
century life."
'rom the office of the Clerk of the 1921, at page 252 ot book 70 of the
Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, records of mortgages In the office
Primitive Customs in
Doubt Anecdote of Drake
Gue of the featu
' f the great his
Cornish Fishing Town for Um atilla county, and to me direct of the County Recorder of U m atilla
County, Oregon, should be fore
torical pageant of
I. produced at
A place where grown men play mar ed on a Judgment In said Court ren-
Torquay, wna the use. In one scene, hies with the seat of schoolboys nai lered on the 6th day of December, closed, and the said real property sold
of the Identical set of bowls with where cats catch live fish among the '924 In favor of C. W Kellogg and by the Sheriff of U m atilla County.
which Drake waa playing when the rock pools when the tide is out. Burl
lohn Sehlmke as plaintiffs, and Oregon, to satisfy said Judgment and
Armada came In light. These bowls a place does exist, nnd In the quiilni
against
W illiam Brown and Mints all costs; .therefore I w ill, on Satur
are among the treasures of Torquay old fishing town of St. Ives, in far
Brown hla w ife as defendants, for day, December 20th. 1J14, at two
museum, says London Answers.
away Cornwall, these things may la
the sum of »300.00 w ith Interest o'clock In the afternoon of th at day,
There are people, however, who Seen.
doubt their authenticity or rather the
thereon
at the rate of 10 per cent at the front door of the court house
In the cool of the evening, along the
truth of the famous anecdote of Drake broad road bordering the sheltered per annum from the first day of Oct in the city of Pendleton, Um attlla
and his celebrated game on Plymouth harbor, numerous groups of hardy fish ober, 1921, and the further sum of County. Oregon, eell all the right,
line. There Is no contemporary ac enntn, with sea and sun tanned com
855.00 attorneys fees and »43.7A title . Interest and estate which ths
count of the Incident, which was de plexions, play marbles for hours at a
coats
and disbursements, which judg said defendants, S. E. W alker and
scribed for the first time In Britain time, surrounded by many Interested
ment also order« the sale of the fol M ary J. W alker his wife, and all
In tin Eighteenth century book. It h l onlookers, remarks Iamdon Tit-Bits.
persons claim ing and to claim by,
mentloiosl, however. In a Spanish po
Griaxled old mariners, many ot lowing described real property In
litical pamphlet published In 11)24.
Oregon,
to-wlt through or under them, or any of
wtiom preserve the old Cornish custom Um atilla County,
"When I was cycling through Eng
of wearing »mnll gold earrings. |>ace j Lots 5 and S In Block C and Lots them, had on the 11th day of March,
land," write» R. It. W.. "I started off ' the quayside In piytlea o f three and i 5, 7 and 3 In Block D. First addi 1931, or since then have had, or now
one morning to rlile from Clacton to . four, following the "walk four steps ; tion t-j Hermiston, according to plat have. In and to the above described
St. t)»ylh. After a while I became un
and turn," which 1» all they are able : Hied March Sth, 1907, all In Uma real property and every part there
certain about the road and meeting a - to do on the clear space on the decks
tilla county, Oregon.
of. at public auction Io the highest
laborer 1 Inquired, 'Am I right for St.
of their lugg-’rs.
I w ill at the hour of 3 o'clock In i bidder for cash In hand, the pro
OsytbF The man looked puasled and
There la a legend «hour the cat» of the afternoon on the 17th day of I
aald he never heard of any »uch place.
ceeds of sueh sal« to he applied In
St Ivea, hot there was sorely never
"A »eennd wayfarer whom I n»ked
another fishing town with so many January. 1925. sell at the front door satlsfactloh of said execution and all
was equally Ignorant. Then came a
eat*. Each morning, when the niglit’t I of the Court House of said County, i coats.
third. Thia fellow scratched his head,
Dated this 17th day of November,
hut presently a look of cnmprebenslan j catches of mackerel, dogfish and skate all of the right, title and estate
are brought ashore, the fish are held by the said W illiam Brown and 1924.
dawned upon hla face. ‘Ay, to be sure, i
chatted on tables placed near the M lnta Brown his wife In and to the
Zoeth Hr
1 ham It now—It's Snoasy y» n tm al*”
waiter'« edge and scores of cat» have
shove described property on tho l« th Sheriff of U m atilla County,
—New Haven Register.
a, jpprinim yfeed on rt»P offal
day of September, 1 9 » , (tho some 1 0 - ,tc By W . B. Anderson. Deputy»
I
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Is b r o a d c a s t i n g t o a l l t h e
¡W o r ld t h i s s e a s o n
“ C om e! W e a re b e tte r p re p a re d
th a n e v e r to e n te rta in y o n and m a k e
y o u r v is it a w o n d e r fu l experien ce.”
ir you have never been to California it should be
the effort of your life to go. When you are ready
to plan the trip let the
Union Pacific
help. Send word to the u n d c n ific d by phone, or m ail or
p r t n t e a m a t t e r to We h a d . I know every route, every
train, every land o f equipm ent and the exact coat. I will
secure your sleeping car accommodations, provide y o u with
■n outline o f your trip, and deliver your ticket«. You need
not leave your hom> or your office to attend to bothersome
details. I have the best there is, and it shall be yours the
moment I know you desire it.
F. C. Woughter, Agent,
Hermiston, Oregon
fart Getting A L L -W U N D
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on thg,
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in g p erfo rm a n ce o f « e r e c t ly BALANCED
g a so lin e —
Q u ick , h air-trigger startin g ! F a st a c
c e le r a tio n in sp ite o f th e c o ld — w ith o u t
sa crifice o f p o w e r or m ile a g e .
Y o u ’ll find th e w in te r g a so lin e y o u ’re
looking for a t a n y “R ed C r o w n ” p u m p
in t o w n — a t S tan d ard O il S e r v ic e S ta tio n s
an d a t d e a le r s— “in e v e r y w a y a b e tte r
g a so lin e .”
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